Word: polese
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It isn't Jaruzelski who clamped down on the Poles. It is the string pullers in Moscow. We do not threaten our allies with invasion if they do not stop their strikes or riots. But the Soviet Union does. The Poles have done what others in Communist countries fear...
Finally, if Reagan's initial actions appeared too ineffectual to many, others believed that his verbal responses to the crackdown suitably combined righteous anger with hints of flexibility and a new sense of pragmatism about the realities of foreign policy. For example, in an NBC television interview last week...
Across the country, meanwhile, there was little reaction to Reagan's sanctions except in Polish-American communities, where sentiment was predictably strong. "He is going in the right direction," said Stefan Harvey, president of the Southern California division of the Polish-American Congress. "But he didn't go...
As the new year began, the government announced that nine Solidarity leaders had been given prison sentences of up to seven years for organizing strikes or engaging in other illegal activities. The government also dismissed 90 provincial officials for failing to carry out their duties effectively under martial law. Responding...
Outwardly, at least, Poland was calmer than at any time since martial law was imposed. Poles from the countryside told a TIME correspondent that their villages had never really been touched by martial law. But most Poles were still unable to move freely outside the region in which they live...